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Bali is now open to international travelers from 19 countries. However, the return of tourism is off to a slow start as there are still no direct flights to the island one week after Indonesian officials opened it up.

"We have given permission to 19 countries to be able to travel to Bali and the Riau Islands," Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, said last Wednesday, . Those places鈥攃hosen for their low COVID-19 positivity rates鈥攁re Bahrain, China, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and United Arab Emirates. All international travelers must be fully vaccinated, have insurance that covers coronavirus treatment, test negative, and quarantine at their own expense for five days upon arrival.

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Bali saw a sharp decline in annual visitors in 2020 漏Emma Shaw/老澳门六合彩开奖记录

Though the international airport technically opened on October 14, there were no international flights scheduled then, . And one week later, the situation hasn't changed. The airport's arrival schedule doesn't include any immediate direct flights and searches on Skyscanner and Google reveal no direct flights from a handful of approved countries over the next few days. Tourism officials, however, expect direct international flights to resume in late October/early November.

鈥淭hese things take time. These countries and the visitors need time," Bali governor I Wayan Koster said, . 鈥淲e hope that by end of October at the latest there will be incoming flights, whether it's a charter or commercial flight as signs of the start of tourism recovery in Bali.鈥


Before the pandemic, some 6 million people visited Bali on an annual basis; last year, that number dropped to just 1 million, according to the AP. Coronavirus cases surged in Indonesia this summer, peaking in July, but they鈥檝e been since early September. As of October 21, 32% of the country鈥檚 population had been .

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